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Y10 Caves

 * Search online and see if you can find the article about caves we used earlier this week.
 * Copy and paste the following questions into a Word document and answer each.


 * 1) What shape is the Naica mining complex?
 * 2) What shape is the Cave of Crystals?
 * 3) What is the volume of the cave?
 * 4) What language is Majlis al Jinn and what do you think it means?
 * 5) Why do hungry glowworms glow more?
 * 6) How do they get their food?
 * 7) Do glowworms stay as worms forever?


 * Find the National Geographic article about the world's biggest cave, and copy/paste/answer the questions below.


 * 1) Where is Son Doong cave?
 * 2) What is its volume?
 * 3) Where was the previous world-record holding cave?
 * 4) How can people explore all of the cave?
 * 5) Where were the explorers from?
 * 6) Who found the cave and where were they from?
 * 7) What type of rock is the cave carved from, and what carved it?
 * 8) What are stalagmites and how are they made?
 * 9) Why was it only recently discovered?
 * 10) Where might larger caves be?


 * If you have time, find the link to the National Geographic photographs of the Cave of Crystals. Read the text and give your thoughts about Juan Manuel García-Ruiz's final question (page 6)?

Hints

 * Oddee.com article


 * 1) The Naica mining complex, which yields lead, zinc, copper, silver, and gold, zigzags nearly half a mile underground.
 * 2) Deep inside Naica mountain, the Cave of Crystals is a horseshoe-shaped cavity in limestone rock about 30 feet (10 meters) wide and 90 feet (30 meters) long.
 * 3) Deep inside Naica mountain, the Cave of Crystals is a horseshoe-shaped cavity in limestone rock about 30 feet (10 meters) wide and 90 feet (30 meters) long.
 * 4) It is located in a remote area of the Selma Plateau at around 1600 meters altitude in The Sultanate of Oman.
 * 5) Then, the larva glows to attract prey into its threads, so that the roof of a cave is covered with larva can look remarkably like the heavens at night.
 * 6) To trap its prey it [the cave glow worm] goes fishing with a line of silk. That ghostly blue light is the result of a chemical reaction taking place inside a special capsule in its tail... Insects seem irresistibly drawn towards the source and then get trapped by the sticky lines. Once stuck, there is no escape. Now it's just a matter of reeling in the line and slowly consuming the catch - alive.
 * 7) Then, the larva glows to attract prey into its threads, so that the roof of a cave is covered with larva can look remarkably like the heavens at night.

Answers

 * 1) Zigzags
 * 2) Horseshoe
 * 3) 10x10x30=3000m^3
 * 4) Arabic - Meeting Place of Spirits
 * 5) They glow to make insects fly to them.
 * 6) Insects fly into the sticky line of silk and then the glowworms pull them up and eat them.
 * 7) No. Larva are baby insects (e.g. caterpillars) that will change into a different-looking animal (e.g. butterflies).